Selena Gomez has successfully entitled herself Billboard’s Woman of the Year for 2017, and she held nothing back while in the interview with the music publication. The 25-year-old Wolves songstress opened up about her health, giving an update on how she’s doing after her kidney transplant.

Jennifer revealed in the interview published on Thursday, November 30:

It was really hard in the beginning. I remember looking at myself in the mirror completely naked and thinking about all the things that I used to bitch about and just asking, ‘Why? I had someone in my life for a very long time who pointed out all the things that I didn’t feel great about with myself.

Billboard's Woman of the Year, Selena Gomez (magazine cover)

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She continued:

When I look at my body now, I just see life. There are a million things I can do — lasers and creams and all that stuff – but I’m OK with it. And by the way, there’s nothing wrong with [plastic surgery]. I just think for me, it could be my eyes, my round face, my ears, my legs, my scar. I don’t have perfect abs, but I feel like I’m wonderfully made.

The Disney Channel alum further said that the surgery also helped her take more ownership of herself.

I just kept thinking about how much my body is my own. Ever since I was 7, my life always felt like I was giving it to someone else. I felt really alone even though I had a lot of great people around me. But the decisions I was making, were they ever for me?. [After the surgery] I had this sense of gratitude for myself. I don’t think I’ve ever just stopped and been like, ‘I’m actually grateful for who I am.’

As reported in September, Selena had to undergo the surgery over the summer due to complications with lupus and she was diagnosed with it more than five years ago.